California May Become Civilized and Abolish the Death Penalty
Something positive for a change:
Voters in California are now effectively split in their views on repealing the state's death penalty, according to a new poll from USC/LA Times released Friday. Forty-five percent of the 1,440 likely voters polled oppose Proposition 34 (banning the death penalty), while 43 percent support repeal. The numbers are within the 2.58 percent margin of error, making it a statistical dead heat.
posted by spooked at 6:09 PM
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The former District Attorney of Harris County, Texas said that the Death Penalty results in MORE murders, as killers tend to also kill any/all potential witnesses to the first killing.
PS. I wish you would kill CAPTCHA.
California May Become Civilized and Abolish the Death Penalty
"civilized". how is the death penalty not civilized?
granted, many innocent people may be languishing on death row due to improper prosecution, but frankly, many people deserve to be put to death.
As of 2012, there are 725 offenders (including 19 women) on California's death row. Of those, 126 involved torture before murder, 173 killed children, and 44 murdered police officers.
one of these offenders, richard ramirez the 'night stalker', possibly the worst offender ever, is still "languishing" on death row more than 20 years later. at tax-payers expense.
Whenever a government kills its own citizens, that sends a message to society at large, and the message is "kill and we will kill you". Hardly a message that our society reveres all life and sets an example of compassion when one of its members does something horrible. Sort of makes you wonder if murder is the only thing that the state will use to justify taking another life.
Whenever a government kills its own citizens, that sends a message to society at large, and the message is "kill and we will kill you". Hardly a message that our society reveres all life and sets an example of compassion when one of its members does something horrible. Sort of makes you wonder if murder is the only thing that the state will use to justify taking another life.
some people deserve to be killed.
some people may indeed deserve to be killed, but I would like to think civilized people are better than killing people and finding better ways of meting out justice.
But practically, my main issue with the death penalty is that it depends on a fair justice system, which is definitely not the case. I think killing an innocent person is a massive tragedy and something we should avoid at all costs.
I think there are cases of justifiable homicide, but it is extremely situation dependent.
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